Braided Rug

A long band, mirrored and slipped along an axis so the forms march down the field in alternating direction. It’s the same alternating-strand logic a braided rug uses to fill a floor - strands going one way, then the other, then the first again, locked into a calm steady repeat.

The figure has textile bones. The slip-mirror is how a braided rug - or a woven cloth - fills a surface without looking pasted on: a single motif paired with its reverse, advanced row by row.

At jewelry scale a short run of the pattern collapses into two or three bands held in metal - the field-filling repeat read close, instead of from across a room.